Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932700AbWJLQxU (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:53:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932701AbWJLQxU (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:53:20 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:3293 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932700AbWJLQxT (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:53:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:51:28 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Greg KH Cc: Theodore Tso , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, Justin Forbes , Zwane Mwaikambo , Randy Dunlap , Chuck Wolber , Chris Wedgwood , Michael Krufky , torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 00/67] 2.6.18-stable review Message-ID: <20061012165128.GC21149@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Greg KH , Theodore Tso , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, Justin Forbes , Zwane Mwaikambo , Randy Dunlap , Chuck Wolber , Chris Wedgwood , Michael Krufky , torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk References: <20061011210310.GA16627@kroah.com> <20061012004244.GA9252@thunk.org> <20061012163522.GE20868@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061012163522.GE20868@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1259 Lines: 28 On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:35:22AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 08:42:44PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 02:03:10PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > And yes, we realize that this is a large number of patches, sorry... > > > > I number of these patches were cleanups, such as removing code betewen > > #if 0, removing header files from being exported, etc. Not bad > > things, but I wouldn't have thought it would have met the criteria for > > being added to -stable. Are you intentionally relaxing the criteria? > > The header file stuff was intentionally added, as it is good to have the > header files exported properly. Those were a large number of these > patches. Indeed. I see this as just 'finishing the job' rather than fixing something that's busted though. That said, I was also carrying these in what will be our 2.6.18 based update kernel for FC5 (and what will be FC6) for the same reasons. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/